I don't know who this is but it's a good piece, reminds me of Anton. Something that will resonate with people who are kind of into Tucker but aren't yet sure that what is surrounding us is real
I agree with a lot of his political analysis about how the upcoming elites have been trained into this both ideologically and financially and pretty much can't let either one go, let alone the two combined
The problem is, Everyone Hates This
So I don't think populism is going anywhere, if anything it will strain harder against these types, because it knows the leadership hates them, wants all of their political power (if not their physical beings) liquidated
At the same time, these elites are advancing past any idea of "liberalism." Which means they're clearing the ground for an intellectual vanguard against them, that can claim both now-discarded liberal ground and while advancing to anti-woke illiberal ground
None of these things are guaranteed victory by any means, but it's once again a very unstable and chaotic space
And pretty much 100% proof that the post-WW2 liberal order is dead, we're just now fighting over what gets to replace it
Which means that the question now is which Enlightenment liberal values do you value most, and which of them are you willing to sacrifice to maintain them as core national and cultural values.
Your enemies are already doing this, and have been doing this for a long time.
It's time to catch up.
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One of the things that happens when you fight back—*really* fight back, like mounting full-bore counter-propaganda campaigns that change laws across the nation—is that you force the enemy to justify itself
And reminder it's not just medical care that's specifically reserved for non-whites. The second round of PPP "loans" (billions in free federal money) were all given to POC/women before white men. The courts only struck it down after all the money was already gone.
One of the most basic maneuvers of the Current Year Regime is to rush through obviously unconstitutional acts with the understanding that the money will be redistributed before the courts can even start to decide whether what was just done was legal.
And then it's too late.
One of the reasons the bureaucratic ruling class, i.e. Deep State, loves the state of emergency it's declared against the virus is that this allows this class to perform limitless end-arounds against the courts that occasionally still stymie its de facto rule.
This article is somehow even stupider than the headline. "Don't fight the dragons everyone hates bro, that might make *you* turn into a dragon, and then the Actually Good Dragons might not get to dragon-rule you"
@tylercowen nobody believes in your stupid losing bullshit anymore
Leftism will always pursue and attempt to termite-colony everything that has ever been made yes
It must be resisted internally, but people must expand wherever possible, especially hostile frontiers, in order to pursue every avenue to shrug it off, no pun intended
People don't like space, it's Reddit or cope or whatever, but humans *must* conquer space. The more humans sit in their comfortable city they've built, looking no farther, the more this process of domesticating them always begins to overtake them
The most insane part of this "argument," especially from the left, is *there is no argument*
If people want to go choke on dust on Mars, there is no reason to stop them. The only reasons that can be ginned up is you don't want them to leave, they're supposed to be your subjects